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Died. Alberto Augustm Dodero, 64, Italian immigrant's son who became one of South America's wealthiest men and freest spenders; of a heart attack; in Montevideo, Uruguay. Aided by loans and contracts from Argentina's Dictator Juan Peron, to whom he had given such thoughtful gifts as a Rolls-Royce, Dodero expanded his shipping business to 382 vessels, the continent's biggest merchant fleet. In 1949 he sold his Compania Argentina de Navegacion Dodero S.A. to Peron's government. For pleasure, Don Alberto had a small land, sea & air fleet all his own, kept...
...sharpen the arguments he would use in court. A spellbinder before juries, he won the celebrated alienation-of-affection suit known as Woodhouse v. Woodhouse. For his client, a lowly soap salesman's daughter wooed and won, then spurned, by the son of one of Vermont's wealthiest, haughtiest families, Austin wangled a record jury award: $465,000, a high price for affection-especially in Vermont. (The judge cut it down...
...great stock of funds makes the Ford Foundation the wealthiest of the nation's philanthropic organizations; it surpasses both the Carnogie and Rockefeller Foundations...
...world's wealthiest, least understood and least publicized organizations for seeking out scientific knowledge got a new boss last week. Down from the presidency of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research stepped John Davison Rockefeller Jr., 76, to make way for a younger man. The younger man: his youngest son, David, 35, onetime secretary to New York City's late Mayor Fiorello La Guardia. In World War II he rose from private to captain, is now a vice president of the Chase National Bank...
...Soong got an A.B. from Harvard in 1915, returned to China to become one of the top political leaders and one of the wealthiest men of his country. He has been Finance Minister, Foreign Minister, chairman of the board of the Bank of China. During the crucial years 1945-47, he was Premier...